Muslim woman denied unopened soda on United Airline speaks with RT
Danny Glover, rapper Kazzie talk black inequality, search for success in America
America is stringing up nooses for blacks now
Just as #BlackLivesMatter courses through America, so does a racist backlash: people are stringing up nooses all over the country. From college campuses to stores, fire houses to small towns, nooses keep popping up. The Resident discusses.
New York media focuses disproportionately on blacks – report
The Supreme Court has ruled that Alabama’s redistricting plans weaken blacks’ political power by concentrating them together, thus increasing Republican power. Justices sent the case back to the same District Court that had okayed Alabama’s new maps.
In 2012, Alabama’s Republican-led state legislature re-drew the boundaries of the state legislature’s 105 House districts and 35 Senate districts. It focused on obtaining the theoretical ideal of precisely equal population by keeping any deviation from that goal to less than one percent. Alabama also sought to avoid hampering racial minorities’ ability to elect their candidates of choice ‒ as required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ‒ by maintaining roughly the same percentage of African-Americans in majority-minority districts that existed within the previous district lines.
Speaking out for the first time after he was acquitted in a federal investigation, George Zimmerman cast himself as an innocent American persecuted by the federal government and the president personally, after he shot and killed a black teenager in 2012.
What should have been a “clear-cut self-defense matter” turned into a federal persecution of him as a white racist, Zimmerman said in a 13-minute video interview to his lawyer, Howard Iken, which was released on Monday.
‘Racial Thursday’ leads to US Army investigation of Alaskan platoon
UVA brutal student arrest: Local leaders demand Charlottesville addresses racism
DEA agent told to leave rich, white areas alone
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Almost a third of American families are low-income, with racial and ethnic minorities far more likely to be poor, according to a new report. Activists advise more education, training, health and child care to close the gap.
Racial incitement against Africans in Israel comes from top levels of govt – Israeli journalist
A Ferguson judge singled out by the Justice Department for the aggressive fines he has handed out reportedly owes the Internal Revenue Service about $170,000.
Judge Ronald Brockmeyer has a backlog of taxes due to the US government going back to 2007, according to the Guardian. The judge’s fining policies were singled out by the DOJ investigation into the Ferguson Police Department and city court system, and were found to be aggressive and used to unfairly target African Americans.
Ferguson police profiled, arrested black individuals disproportionately – DOJ report
The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann
Conversations With Great Minds: Professor Derald W. Sue: Professor Derald W. Sue, author of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race, talks with Thom Hartmann about race relations in America and what needs to be done.
#BlackLivesMatter: Tactics, Class Warfare, & the Legacy of Racism
To highlight "police and state violence against black people,” at least 23 protesters were arrested Thursday after chaining themselves to barriers and blocking both sides of Interstate 93 in the Boston area, slowing the morning commute at its peak.
Massachusetts state police said the early morning protest shut down Interstate 93 northbound at East Milton Square, which is south of the city, and southbound in the Medford-Somerville area north of the city, according to MyFoxBoston.com. Seventeen protesters were arrested on I-93 south and six on I-93 north.
Police reported that power saws were needed to unlodge protesters who had chained themselves to barrels.
The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann Thom Hartmann discusses the #Paris terror attack and the difference in #terrorist vs #racist acts.